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Burna Boy named among Times Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024
Time Magazine has honored Burna Boy by naming him one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo penned a glowing tribute to the African giant, highlighting his unique position as the only African musician to make the prestigious list. Kidjo hailed Burna Boy as a catalyst for change, lauded by countless young people who see him as an inspiration.
In her tribute, she wrote, “Ten years ago or so, when young African musicians would come to me for advice, I would tell them, “You don’t need to mimic American artists! The world needs the amazing richness and beauty of our traditional African music and our culture. This land is where most of modern music comes from. This source of inspiration is inexhaustible. Its freshness and its elegance will get the world’s attention for sure.
Burna Boy has made that vision a global reality. Inspired by the fantastic drums of Nigerian folk music, and studied in the craft of the great African singer-songwriters, he follows in the footsteps of Fela Kuti—the internationally celebrated Afrobeats artist and activist. Burna Boy’s deeply original flow and his signature groove have conquered the world with an impressive series of firsts: in 2023, he became the first African artist to sell out a U.S. stadium, and in 2024, he became the first Afrobeats artist to sing at the Grammys. He is history in the making. Now a whole generation of young people from the continent is looking up to him”
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Burna Boy, the multi-award-winning artist, has been honored as one of the top 10 most alluring men of the moment by Essence magazine.
In its 2024 list released on Thursday, April 12, 2024, Essence magazine lauded Burna Boy’s physical attributes, describing him as the “perfect specimen.”